{"id":5915,"date":"2023-12-06T12:01:59","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T04:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panap.net\/?p=5915"},"modified":"2023-12-06T12:01:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T04:01:59","slug":"organizations-call-for-radical-food-systems-transformation-not-false-climate-solutions","status":"publish","type":"panap_updates","link":"https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/updates\/organizations-call-for-radical-food-systems-transformation-not-false-climate-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"108 organizations from 26 countries call for radical food systems transformation, not false climate solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dubai\u2013 108 organizations from 26 countries supported demands led by rural peoples of the Global South to negotiators of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of Parties 28 (COP28) to slam the brakes on profit-motivated false climate solutions and instead push for the radical transformation of food systems to address the climate crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/ourfoodsystems.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/COP28-Sign-On-Petition-on-Food-Land-and-Climate-Justice.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">petition<\/a> of the Global People\u2019s Caravan for Food, Land and Climate Justice\u2013circulated among communities of small farmers, agricultural workers, Indigenous peoples, other rural peoples and their advocates since early this year\u2013lists five demands:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Transform food systems away from fossil fuels towards agroecology and people\u2019s food sovereignty<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> End corporate monopoly over land, water, and natural resources<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Polluters must pay for climate destruction<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> End fossil fueled wars vs. rural communities<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Ensure genuine participation of rural peoples in climate policy<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5922\" src=\"https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/COP28-Dubai-SpeakOut4-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/COP28-Dubai-SpeakOut4-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/COP28-Dubai-SpeakOut4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/COP28-Dubai-SpeakOut4-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/COP28-Dubai-SpeakOut4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/COP28-Dubai-SpeakOut4.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cRural peoples have lost the most, and stand to lose the most, from the climate crisis. We must not be used to advance profiteering schemes designed to further trample upon our rights and welfare. Small farmers, not big corporations, must be at the center of climate action,\u201d said Wali Hader from Roots for Equity (Pakistan) in an action and press conference held today at COP28 by rural peoples\u2019 representatives from Asia, Africa, and Latin America.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The petition states that: \u201cLand grabbing has intensified under the mantle of so-called \u2018nature-based solutions\u2019. Biofuel plantations, some big \u2018conservation\u2019 and renewable energy projects, and green bonds to finance the operations of big agribusinesses have accelerated deforestation and the loss of the world\u2019s natural carbon sinks. They have displaced small farmers and Indigenous Peoples in the Global South. Climate-friendly, biodiverse farming practices have been replaced by monocultures under exploitative working conditions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The petition also pointed out that while agrochemical and fertilizer industries are among the world\u2019s top emitters, they are cashing in on opportunities provided by the climate crisis. \u201cBillions of dollars are being poured into TNC-led development and promotion of \u2018climate-smart,\u2019 \u2018precision\u2019 and \u2018regenerative\u2019 agriculture that involve the use of herbicides, proprietary gene-edited or genetically modified seeds and biological products, laboratory-made food and feed, and digital technologies to more efficiently promote the use of chemical inputs and measure soil carbon credits. These so-called climate \u2018solutions\u2019 hinge on questionable emissions cuts claims and risky technologies, while perpetuating the fossil fuel economy and laying the groundwork for almost total corporate control over food systems,\u201d it stated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5921\" src=\"https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/COP28-Dubai-SpeakOut6-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/COP28-Dubai-SpeakOut6-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/COP28-Dubai-SpeakOut6-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/COP28-Dubai-SpeakOut6-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/COP28-Dubai-SpeakOut6-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/COP28-Dubai-SpeakOut6.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The corporate agenda at COP28 is made apparent with the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UAE Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture, Resilient Food Systems and Climate Action<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> adopted by 134 countries on December 1, which was accompanied by USD$2.5 billion in funding support for initiatives that involve the world\u2019s largest agri-businesses and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also launched at the COP28 was the Action Agenda on Regenerative Landscapes, which involve multinationals in food, grains trade, dairy, and agrochemicals\u2013namely Nestle, Unilever, PepsiCo, ADM, Danone, and UPL\u2013giant banks, and top carbon offsets seller The Nature Conservancy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cCarbon credits generated from land have become an increasingly sought-after financial asset. For rural peoples in the Global South, this only means one thing\u2013an increase in land monopoly by local elites and big businesses through dispossession and violent eviction, deforestation and plunder of natural resources. There must be no land and resource grabs under the banner of net zero,\u201d said Arnold Padilla, coordinator of PAN Asia Pacific and the Global People\u2019s Caravan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe lack of mention of agroecology in the COP28 Food Systems Declaration is telling of the perpetuation of the fossil fuel-driven industrial farming model based on corporate food systems\u2013the very opposite of \u2018transformation\u2019 that the declaration espouses,\u201d Padilla added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5923\" src=\"https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/COP28-Dubai-SpeakOut7-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/COP28-Dubai-SpeakOut7-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/COP28-Dubai-SpeakOut7-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/COP28-Dubai-SpeakOut7-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/COP28-Dubai-SpeakOut7-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/COP28-Dubai-SpeakOut7.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Global People\u2019s Caravan told COP28 negotiators, \u201cA just food and energy transition is only possible when rural food producers and Indigenous Peoples&#8217; control their land, territories, water, and natural resources. Countries must advance a genuinely redistributive land and agrarian reform program, a pro-people aquatic and fisheries reform, and instill policies to protect natural resources from domestic and foreign plunder.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Note to editors:\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Global People&#8217;s Caravan for Food, Land and Climate Justice is a Global South led campaign of rural peoples to mobilize on interrelated issues of food, land and climate justice towards radical food systems transformation. (<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourfoodsystems.org\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">www.ourfoodsystems.org<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Media contacts: <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Arnold Padilla, coordinator of PAN Asia Pacific and the Global People\u2019s Caravan, <a href=\"mailto:arnold.padilla@panap.net\">arnold.padilla@panap.net<\/a><br \/>\nWali Hader, joint director of Roots for Equity (Pakistan), <a href=\"mailto:walikhi@yahoo.com\">walikhi@yahoo.com<\/a><br \/>\nIlang-Ilang Quijano, Global People\u2019s Caravan communications officer, <a href=\"mailto:ilang.quijano@panap.net\">ilang.quijano@panap.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai\u2013 108 organizations from 26 countries supported demands led by rural peoples of the Global South to negotiators of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of Parties 28 (COP28) to slam the brakes on profit-motivated false climate solutions and instead push for the radical transformation of food systems to address the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5919,"template":"","update_categories":[107],"class_list":["post-5915","panap_updates","type-panap_updates","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","update_categories-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/panap_updates\/5915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/panap_updates"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/panap_updates"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/panap_updates\/5915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"update_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/update_categories?post=5915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}